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Apple working with Consumer Reports on MacBook Pro battery findings, says Phil Schiller
AppleInsider could post this paragraph in lieu of every comment thread on any technical issue ever, and save us all a lot of time.dewme said:The real problem with this CR reported issue, and every other issue involving Apple, is that there are always highly divided and wildly ranging emotional reactions and responses from people or entities who either have an emotional attachment, whether positively biased or negatively biased, to Apple. Rather than responding with logic, e.g., recognizing the emergence of a latent technical issue that needs to be, and will be, fixed by Apple - you have those on one side who feel their corporate demigod has been attacked and is in need of their personal defense and those on the other side who have always hated Apple feeling that their hate has now been vindicated by Apple's massive, deliberate, and unforgivable stumble. In other words, logic and reality get kicked to the curb and emotion gets lit up like a Christmas tree, replete with all of the cognitive bias and fallacy based presents that eagerly await their unwrapping beneath such a tree.
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Circulating five-second video causes Apple iPhones to freeze
I think the "Apple is doomed! /s" joke is played out now. Probably 90% of "Apple is doomed!" posts are now anticipating the critique rather than making it. Chuck Norris jokes have finally died a merciful death in most online games; let's move on.spliff monkey said:Wow. A video that forces you to reboot your phone if you play it? Sounds dangerous. Apple doom! /s
This was an informative post, not just clickbait. No need to perpetuate the flame wars over it.
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Google I/O 2016: Android's failure to innovate hands Apple free run at WWDC
Here's what worries me about Marco's piece: if he's right to suggest that big data AI analytics is the future of services, then Apple's not only not doing enough of what it takes to get there, it's almost set its vision against such a future. If all of your data has to be accessible only on your phone and completely inaccessible to Apple while in the cloud, that cripples Apple's ability to use user data to practice and improve machine learning. Google Now is already spooky good compared to Siri in a lot of ways, and Google's working on making it better at that, while Apple's decided to fly the flag of privacy. Privacy's great, but there are things that it precludes. I trust Apple to keep my data protected, and also to use it to make my services better. But Apple doesn't seem to trust itself to do so.rogifan_new said:And yet my Twitter feed is full of tech writers and Apple bloggers talking about how great I/O was and how Apple really has to bring it at WWDC. The last ATP podcast was all doom and gloom, and Marco even has a post up now comparing Apple to Blackberry. https://marco.org/2016/05/21/avoiding-blackberrys-fate
I wish there was some place we could get decent Apple reporting that wasn't either D&G silly panic or everything's great Apple's the best they make all the $$$ blah blah blah. If these AI pieces are meant to reassure I don't think they do. If everything was peaches and cream there would be no need to write these pieces in the first place.
